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Me. I do.

6 (40%)

Nope.

9 (60%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: June 24, 2004, 05:25:32 am

[linnea]

So, yeah. My ISP doesn't have shell access, nor do I have Perl on my server. Rather than beg webspace from friends, I decided to give Movable Type's TypePad a shot.

I know that some of you are running MT on your personal and professional webpages. Any advice?  Am I retarded for paying for TypePad? Mine is pretty rudimentary at this stage. Livejournal is okay and everything, but it has a certain...stigma.

I would definitely be interested in seeing links that you all think are worthwhile. My site is still very bare-bones, but I'm excited to get it together.

http://Somebody nice.typepad.com/

[jough]

And your LiveJournal blog isn't good enough because...?

Well, I don't really blog, even though I answered in the affirmative in your poll.  

Jough.com has sort of a blog - I use MT to put up news about myself - then I'll add entries for like, two weeks straight, every day, and then abandon the site for six months.

I've spread myself pretty thin between nine different web sites, so admittedly blogging is a very very low priority.

But for diarists, blogs are great.

I really like Movable Type - I also use it as a generic CMS for Cinema Review which is nice because I can add users and have authors add their own articles.

So how much is MT's service?  Because you can get web hosting with your own domain name and e-mail and everything for like, $5 a month (at least, my company has plans that start there).

[jough]

NM regarding their pricing - I forgot that I have the power to look things up on the Internet:

http://www.typepad.com/site/features/

They seem to start at $5 a month for next to useless service, then $9 seems to be the one they want you to sign up for, and then a $15 service.

I gotta say, it's a frikkin' rip-off.  Especially if you know HTML.

You're still in your 30-day free trial period, right?

[Choop]

Yeah, MT just changed their whole pricing scheme and there was a minor uproar in the free (as in beer and speech) software movement. This is why I looked at Textpattern as a generic CMS. The design I posted last week came from my local install; now I just have to figure out the whole templating thing, as it has its own undocumented library of tags.

But blogging? No, rather like Jough I'll journal like mad for a couple weeks and forget about it for a while; unlike Jough that while usually doesn't end.

[jough]

Choop - do you like TextPattern so far?

Yes, MT is no longer free and has changed its codebase significantly so that it's not easy to upgrade from a previous install. So you'd pretty much have to start over.

I have no problems using the older version, although they promised changes and upgrades which obviously aren't going to happen now that they've changed their entire business model.

Luckily, there are 50 billion competing products at SourceForge alone - and worse comes to worse I can very very easily roll my own blog.

I actually have made my own for my Poetry X development log:

http://text.poetryx.com

Of course, it's pretty bare-bones in the admin panel.  I never really bother to make the back-end stuff look pretty, especially if I'm the only one who's going to be using it.

[linnea]

I'd like to make additions and improvements to my lj, but I am unfortunately retarded when it comes to code.

I have a 90-day trial with TypePad. So I figured I'd at least give it a shot. Although it was fun setting it up, and it was easier to customize the appearance than livejournal, it's still a bit frustrating. With TypePad and LJ, you can get all sorts of different layouts, and customize colors, and whatnot. I have to say that I like TypePad's interface better.

I have seen people's blogs that are published with MT or Textpattern, and they have some really interesting layouts. For example, I found a nifty site where you can make these rad little buttons. I have made a few, and now I just have to figure out how to add shit to my TypePad layout. Meh. Guess I'm going to have to learn more about webdesign and coding, or else I'll remain eternally stuck with a semi-custom journal like in lj or TypePad.

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Ohh, I almost forgot to mention. I really like the album feature that TypePad has. I've seen all kinds of gallery software, but again...I have never gotten around to installing that shit on my server. So it's pretty handy to be able to upload pictures of my cats in album format.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I installed Moveable Type at the start of the year, and I have to say I like it quite a bit.  I post marginally more often than I did when I was bangin' it all out by hand in HTML.  Which is to say, once or twice a week.
www.bigfool.com/foolblog

[andalucia]

(Keeping in mind that I'm a teenage girl and so that makes it OK*)I use one of the LiveJournal wannabes, xanga, which works out pretty OK for me as a simple little notepadsy thing to write about stuff when I'm for whatever reason too indolent to walk up the stairs and grab my real notebook.  I'm kind of embarassed of it, and I wish I could actually do some html design on my "site", but it's free, and hence, ok.





*Man.  I love using that excuse.

[andalucia]

My browser messed up and I double-posted.  Nothing to see here.

[side_show]

Ohh, I almost forgot to mention. I really like the album feature that TypePad has. I've seen all kinds of gallery software, but again...I have never gotten around to installing that shit on my server. So it's pretty handy to be able to upload pictures of my cats in album format.

And a lovely lil' album it is:

1) I love your cats and they're so cute I want to squish them.
2) Has anyone ever told you that you look like Audrey Tautou? http://video.movies.go.com/amelie/
3) I'd probably enjoy having a blog but I am totally illiterate when it comes to html. Any suggestion for how a total dolt can blog?

[linnea]

1) I love your cats and they're so cute I want to squish them.
2) Has anyone ever told you that you look like Audrey Tautou http://video.movies.go.com/amelie/?

^_^ Wow, nobody's ever said that--thank you. Tautou is gorgeous.  I have always thought that I look more like Janeane Garofalo, whom I love. <3

[side_show]

^_^ Wow, nobody's ever said that--thank you. Tautou is gorgeous.  I have always thought that I look more like Janeane Garofalo, whom I love. <3

Tautou is definitly a beauty - I think it's your hair in the pictures you provide that does it for me, or maybe that you look a bit mischievous.  I tried to get the Amelie hair cut, but my hairs not super thick like hers so it didn't work out.

I've been repeatedly told I act like Janeane Garofalo, and have been repeatedly told "you're just like Janeane Garofalo" - which I take as a complement, cause she's smart and funny and pollitically aware.  I did however date a guy who all who know me refered to simply as "the shitter" (from a published story from when I wrote a dating column for an now defunct online magazine) who was obsessed with Janeane Garofalo, and was attracted to me because a coworker told him she worked with someone "just like Janeane Garofalo."

[jough]

I find Garofalo comparisons to be disturbing.

I mean, isn't she the pretty girl who thinks she's ugly and basically hates herself?

She was good in "The Truth About Cats & Dogs," though, and would have been much preferable than Uma Thurman's character was.

[side_show]

I find Garofalo comparisons to be disturbing.

I mean, isn't she the pretty girl who thinks she's ugly and basically hates herself?

She was good in "The Truth About Cats & Dogs," though, and would have been much preferable than Uma Thurman's character was.

I actually read a really great interview with her where she says she wished she was never in that movie, and also that the concept that she is "ugly" is a concept of the media's making, not her own.  And as for the fact that she would be more preferable than Thurman's character, I've never seen the movie, but isn't it basically a rip-off of "Cyrano de Bergerac," and if so, isn't that the point?

[CortJstr]

I find Garofalo comparisons to be disturbing.

I mean, isn't she the pretty girl who thinks she's ugly and basically hates herself?

Except in her issue of Ms. a few months ago where was stone-cold nasty looking. I don't know who told her that was a good thing to do with her hair but that person was clearly fucked in the head.